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"Making Believe" is a country music song written by Jimmy Work. Kitty Wells recorded a chart-topping version in 1955. The song is on many lists of all-time greatest country music songs and has been covered by scores of artists over the past fifty years, including Thorleifs, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Ray Charles, Anita Carter ...
"I'm Making Believe" is a 1944 song composed by James V. Monaco with lyrics by Mack Gordon. The song first appeared in the film Sweet and Low-Down ; the performance by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song .
Doris Mae Akers (May 21, 1923 – July 26, 1995) [1] was an American gospel music composer, arranger and singer who is considered to be "one of the most underrated gospel composers of the 20th century [who] wrote more than 500 songs". [2]
William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ()) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Russ Taff was born to Joe and Ann Taff on November 11, 1953, the fourth of five sons, and grew up in Farmersville, California. Taff's father was a pastor of a small Pentecostal church - the Eastside Tabernacle Church which was located in an old laundromat - and machinist while his mother, Ann, was a field worker who picked fruit and chopped cotton.
God is calling now for workers where no light has gone: 2 God is ever careful of his own: 4 God laid on me a cross to carry: 2 God's own hand shall lead me: 5 Good night and God bless you: 2 Grant, my dear Lord, thy blessing unto me: 5 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised! In the city of our God (Miles) 2
In 1956, he was the founding pastor of Bethel Assembly of God Church in Lake Worth, Florida. [5] In September 1962, he became pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. [ 3 ] In 1968, he was pastor of Rosen Heights Assembly of God Church in Fort Worth, Texas [ 6 ] where he oversaw the construction of a new building and the ...
William Russell Staines (February 6, 1947 – December 5, 2021) was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New Hampshire who wrote and performed songs with a wide array of subjects. Called "the Woody Guthrie of my generation" by singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith , [ 1 ] he also wrote and recorded children's songs .